““I am convinced birth control destroyed my sex drive” says the title of a Reddit post in r/TwoXChromosomes, a women’s issues forum. Hundreds of comments follow with women describing how being on the Pill has completely changed their sex drive—and not for the better. “When I was on hormonal BC, I completely lost my sex drive” says one commenter. “[Birth control] destroyed mine and took the better part of a year to come back so I could experience what a natural female sex drive felt like,” says another.
But you don’t have to go down Reddit rabbit holes to discover women who are pinpointing their birth control as the culprit behind their weak libidos. This woman on Tiktok describes getting her libido back just days after going off the Pill, and there are a plethora of other videos describing how to fix low libido caused by birth control.
It’s not just individual women on social media who are opening up about this touchy subject — even The New York Times picked up on it. In a January 2024 article titled “The Link Between Birth Control and Sex Drive”, the author delves into what we know about how birth control can change your sex drive. While the NYT article gets a lot right, it ultimately misses the complete picture: birth control radically changes sex for every woman who takes it, on top of its disastrous effects on sex drive for some.”
Read more at Natural Womanhood.
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